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brought him half-dead to the ground. At this juncture, as afore- 

 said, I awoke. Hendriksen took his own rifle, and gave the bear 

 a finishing shot, and I heard a defiant : " You can hiss as much as 

 you like now, old fellow," and realized what had happened. I 

 asked if the bear had harmed the dogs in any way, but learned 

 that it had come from another direction, and had made straight 

 for the tent, quickening its pace rather than otherwise when it 

 saw Hendriksen. This was an enemy which had attacked us, and 



THE MOST SOUTHERN OF ' THE AWLS.' 



which we shot in self-defence we did not require it, and let it 

 lie untouched. 



'It was now four o'clock, and I made breakfast. While we 

 were drinking our coffee a ptarmigan came and sat cackling and 

 clucking close by the tent. It was a lucky bird, Peder said, and 

 we should have fine weather ! Snow-buntings, on the other hand, 

 he did not approve of ; he declared they brought bad weather. 



'A couple of days later we were then camping in Graham 

 Land I made an excursion across the fore-land to a couple of 

 valleys, which led up to the inner part of the island. The 



